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The Argus review has been completed in Australia recently and the committee has suggested a number of moves, some of them ratified by the Board so far. If a similar review was done for Indian cricket, what would we find?The true fact is tha...(more)


Post the England tour, the FTP looks like this5 ODIs vs England at home3 Tests 5 ODIs versus West Indies at home.4 Tests and 8-11 ODIs versus Australia away3 Tests and 5 ODIs versus Pakistan at home.3 Tests versus Sri lanka away.3 Tests ver...(more)

There has been a lot of hand wringing about India’s status as the number one test team. India’s poor (euphemism alert) performance in England has generated a great deal of commentary. The general refrain is as follows; Indian pl...(more)

Ishant doesn’t just have to look like a fast bowler to bowl like one. Beyond the flying hair and the Emirate on his chin, for me, it’s the Baba like calm in those eyes that sort him out. What we see when he bats to save the world. But ...(more)

To the narrow lanes of his childhood, Irfan returns. Kids are scattered around a makeshift wicket. The kids are oblivious of Irfan till he feigns a cough.Kid1: Irfan, why are you here?Kid2: Yeah, now you’ll say, you wanna open and be a pi...(more)
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India conspired to deny South Africa their title of the ultimate chokers by laying claim to it themselves. In fact, they choked twice in a match and seemed to dare South Africa to out-do that. Robin Peterson decided that he couldn’t d...(more)

The title is deliberately misleading. This was the fantasy of most Indian fans who expect India to win the World Cup in style. This stems from how some of the previous winners have done it. Sri Lanka, Australia and West Indies dominated oth...(more)

To be frank, I have never been a Sreesanth fan. Not that I doubt the talent Sreesanth has, but its his temperament that I am not too fond of (ask Hayden and Symonds, they didn’t like it either). He was picked after a face-off with non...(more)

in my quest to find solution to india’s no.7 conundrum... the one name which keeps coming back to my mind, and i am sure i am not alone, is of irfan pathan’s...the selectors and more importantly team management has virtually shu...(more)

New Zealand may have matched India in the first Test and even had them at 15-5, but they shouldn’t expect any more slackness from the Indian batsmen again. The standard ’first-test-hiccup’ as well as the ’pitiful col...(more)

MS Dhoni mentioned recently that there are a few spots for grabs - one point is quite interesting to hearWe don’t have a world-class all-rounder, which means that place is also up for grabs. Also, one more big-hitting batsman who can...(more)

After my previous post of the Top-30 players for the Indian team (World Cup), I received an email from hemnath janakiraman on his teams for all the 3 versions - tests, ODIs and T20. I have represented the same below in a tabular fashion.Pla...(more)

Image via WikipediaHarsha Bhogle has written about the No.7 slot for the Indian team - very valid point about the absence of a proper allrounder (preferably a pace-bowling one) at No.7.To get an idea of the strategy that might be on the min...(more)

There are ways to refresh a tri-series in Sri Lanka, they extend beyond resting Bhajji. Rest the whole lot of them. Play an alternate eleven, rekindle some of the Sharjah magic – the Mohinder Amarnath Benefit series. Hold on to some of La...(more)

What a scandalous headline, isn’t it?
The facts are quite boring. The squad for the Asia Cup has been named, and it’s more or less full strength, except it isn’t.
MS Dhoni (capt & wk), Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir...(more)

Indian cricket, one will do well to remember, faces some really weird selection policies. One day one guy gets chosen because of unmentionable reasons, is retained in the team for even more unmentionable reasons while the best ones ro...(more)

From the rather irrelevant article on Kiran More, being yet another former/ex-cricketer slammed for some of his selections as chief selector who has voiced his “surprise” at a decision made by the current committee and is per...(more)
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Image via WikipediaThe No.2 team in ODI cricket was supposed to be so strong that everyone considered them the team in form and expected them to have a strong bench as well. Earlier, everyone (including me) used to think that the average Ra...(more)

Image via WikipediaToday’s article on Rediff was interesting to read - BCCI needs to rethink county ban on playersPiyush Chawla (Sussex), Irfan Pathan (Essex and Yorkshire), S Sreesanth (Warwickshire), Ishant Sharma (Kent and Hampshire...(more)
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